Finding parking in Kent Boese's stomping grounds in the Park View/Petworth region often involves some trolling. Boese, however, had a lucky streak on a certain stretch of Park Place NW---his go-to spot. "The space is in front of my neighbors, and we get along well," says Boese, adding that he liked to park there because it helped protect the neighbor's curbside garden.

But last fall, something went wrong at his fallback parking space. A letter from the city informing him his car had been photographed there by D.C.'s newest surveillance snitch, Sweepercam, a ticketing camera hoisted to the city's street sweepers. Boese's 2002 Dodge Dakota had been parked in the way during a street cleaning. To Boese's relief, the letter was just a warning, a dry run of sorts for Sweepercam.

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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has finally handed over the Nationals tickets demanded by D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray and colleagues.

Gray informed fellow councilmembers in an e-mail late yesterday that the tickets had been delivered earlier that day by a Fenty staffer.

The handover comes one day after Neil O. Albert was named city administrator. A source says Albert moved to solve the ticket problem as one of his first official acts---perhaps as a gesture of goodwill, perhaps in recognition that mayoral requests for changes to budget legislation wouldn't have a chance otherwise.

More to come Monday.

UPDATE, 1:50 P.M.: Gray tells LL he did indeed speak to Albert yesterday afternoon, and that Albert explained to him that he wanted to make settling the ticket feud his first official act as city administrator. The tickets were delivered within hours. Gray, speaking en route to catching a flight to Las Vegas for the yearly shopping centers convention, says there was no deal discussed, nothing mentioned by Albert that the mayor would be expecting in return. Not that Gray would be willing to entertain such a deal with regard to the tickets: "They're our property," he says.

Sussing out the backstory here is a tough. Why would Albert be the peacemaker here? Looks to LL like Fenty's using the fortuitous timing of Dan Tangherlini's exit to put an end to a conflict Hizzoner clearly didn't think would persist as long as it has. By having Albert serve as the peacemaker here, it gives Fenty a somewhat face-saving exit (somewhat!) by giving his old CA a bit of a kick as he goes out the door---making it seem as though he were the source of the pettiness all along. Could that be? Well, Tangherlini's played hardball with the council before, particularly on the issue of withholding executive witnesses from council hearings, but the ticket tussle has smelled like a Fenty production from the beginning.

So says Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham in a press release this morning.

In an oversight hearing last month, Department of Motor Vehicles Director Lucinda Babers revealed that its been a longstanding policy (15 years!) to reduce by half tickets accrued by big fleet operators in the city---folks like FedEx and UPS who regularly foul up downtown traffic by stopping in travel lanes.

Well, no more, Graham reports.

The change could mean as much as $120,000 yearly in extra revenue, Graham claims.

Speaking of internet ticket jam-ups: Tickets for the August 15 Merriweather Post Pavillion/Pavilion date on Phish's reunion tour, the only tour stop in this market, go on sale tomorrow at 11 a.m. All shows on the tour are selling out immediately.

So what kind of folks will be pounding away on their keyboards come sale time?

Well, here's an ad that appeared on the Washington, DC Craigslist site on Dec. 19, 2008 (PostingID: 964346143), from a guy who scored, so to speak, some passes to Phish's March 8 show at Hampton Coliseum, during the last Web sale:

Me - Holder of 2 extra Phish Tickets for Sunday Hampton
You - Attractive Female 18-30I'm looking for the sweetest trade of all - ANAL - that is right - good old-fashioned anal sex for 2 Phish Tickets. We meet, we have anal and you get 2 hard copy lottery tix for Phish - easy, simple and everyone wins - I bust a nut in your a$$ and you get to go to the show.

If your interested please reply with a pic and I will be happy to send you my confirmation letter with Phish as proof.

God only knows what sorta bartering this dude would go for if he got his hands on a pair of Easter Egg Roll tickets.

God bless her. This afternoon, my sister went to the Convention Center to pick up inauguration tickets. In attempt to score a few extra (for me), she hung around and begged one inaugural ticket worker. She called multiple times. First with good news. Then with bad news. And finally with a tone of desperation admitting that she had resorted to "flirting my ass off for a ticket."

I told her she must not under any circumstances promise to meet up later with any ticket worker or, well, meet up with any employee from the Convention Center. I believe I may have shouted these directives. Unfortunately, this advice failed to anticipate that my sister would give out her cell number to an employee hoping to score tickets. Which she did. [Full disclosure: My sister is not trampy, does not regularly give out her phone number, and in fact, has a steady boyfriend].

Apparently, the Convention Center still has tickets. Rumor is you can still get tickets. The dude started texting my sister a few minutes ago:

"I should be in the area b/w 8 pm n 9 pm...if nothing else...let me buy U a drink...!!!" Then came the smiley emoticon. This was just the first text.

Here is the follow-up after getting a no response from my sister: "Waiting on word 4 a silver ticket 2...." Then another smiley emoticon. See how the dude tries to dangle the prospective of a silver inauguration ticket? Nice.

And finally, the last text (so far) after more no response from my sister: "How come...? U want 2 get in my wool coat w/ me....?" Dude ends desperate text with a sticking-tongue-out emoticon.

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DCist's Sommer Mathis prudently spanks a haughty attitude among parade ticketholders, as evidenced by this comment from onesuch. This particular individual thought she should be exempt from the requirement to get on the parade route early, before the feds close it down due to overcapacity. Just because you bought a $25 ticket doesn't mean you're above the dictates of the Federal Security Apparatus (FSA). Nor does a parade ticket exempt you from any of the bag-size requirements of the parade route.